The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is satisfactory to learn from one who has had excel lent opportunities of knowing the prevailing ways of think ing both in Canada and the adjoining States of America, whose communication will be found under the head " Canada," that there is every reason to believe the troops stationed on the borders by the American Government will effectually prevent the disaffected in Canada from receiving aid from the States of the Union. There is, he affirms, no disposition on the part of the people of the United States to attempt prematurely to obtain what would only at present embarrass them, and which they count on obtaining as a master of course hereafter. That the neutrality was not strictly enforced during the recent disturbances he attri butes to motives connected with the election ; but as the election is over, the Government has no longer a fear of having its activity turned against it. If our Peers are not always influenced by the purest motives, and do not hesitate to hazard the dis memberment of the empire merely for the sake of giving annoyance to Lord Durham, we can hardly be surprised if our brethren of North America occasionally suspect each other of a disposition to foul play. This die position on the part of the North Americans to abstain from interfering with the affairs of Canada is a cheering circumstance in the present state of affairs in that colony. There is more than enough of matter for serious appre hension without the addition of foreign interference. If the Habitant are animated with a furious hatred of the British, it may easily be supposed that there is no love lost on the part of the latter, who naturally enough blame the French for the interruption of their trade, and the enor mous losses they have thereby sustained. Where such a feeling prevails it will be fortunate if exasperating collisions do not take place. The merchant or farmer smarting under losses is not likely to be a merciful ally to the soldier should his services be in requisition as a militia man. The Standard tells us that in the picture we yesterday gave of Canadian discord we prudently omitted one tint, the influence of the implacable hostility of Romanism. We omitted nothing—we do not believe Romanism has anything whatever to do with the quarrel in Canada which led to te insurrection. The agitation had no reference whatever to religion. The agitators were a gang of hungry notaries and doctors who for years had crammed an unsuspecting, credulous population with tales of British rapacity and of designs to rob Jean Baptiste of his inheritance, and drive the Enfans du Sol into the un trodden wilderness. They are in every respect the oppo site of their British neighbours. Without enterprise the Frenchman lived happy and contented on the produce of his patch of ground, his ambition not extending be yond the hurdle fence which environed his little property. Bad as his laws were, and offering al most insurmountable obstacles to improvement, they were the laws to which he bad been accustomed, and the attempts to change them gave a powerful handle to those who wished to fill him with hatred of his English fel low subject. It is admitted on all hands that in no coun try were crimes less frequent, that violence was utterly un known, and that no feature in the character of the people was more remarkable than their peaceable disposition. Romanism did not substitute for the kind feeling long en tertained towards the English their present hatred. By our inconceivable folly we allowed a state of things to con tinue which afforded but too good a handle to the agitators, who ultimately succeeded in driving the poor people into an insurrection. At one time great faults committed by the Tory Governments of this country, who, by opposing the reform of unquestionable abuses, by want of tact in adopting proceedings which, while they were of no be nefit, were exceedingly offensive, created the opposition which, when a disposition was ultimately evinced to act with fairness, burst through all reasonable limits, and would be satisfied with nothing short of national independence. What the priests had to do with all this we cannot per ceive, though we can easily conceive that in a quarrel be tween two races the priests of the French will be forced, whether they will or not, to take part with the men of their own blood and language. So much is the dispute one of race and not of religion, that the Irish Catholics, of whom there are many in the Canadas, are as hostile to the French as the British Protestants. It is quite clear that the lead ers of the French Canadians are men by no means equal to the situation in which they are placed. If they had possessed anything like common sense, they would have availed themselves of the opportunity of Lord Durham's arrival among them to recommend to the Habitant to meet him half way, and second his views. After the cur tain bad fallen upon the first act of civil war, they should have shown a disposition to consider him as an impartial umpire in the dispute. Lord Durham was anxious above all things to reconcile the parties in the hope of averting the evils to the Habitant, as well as to the best interests of the empire, which would result from a renewed struggle for the mastery. But they kept at a sulky distance from him ; they hung back in a spirit of indifference or hostility. As if determined not to be gained over, they even gave their confidence to the greatest enemy of Lord Durham in this country, Lord Brougham, to whom they gave a brief to enable the Noble and Learned Lord to effect his removal from Canada. The leaders of the French have, in short, shown themselves utterly inadequate to the demands of the existing emergency. The meeting at St. Rosh's suburbs, held for the purpose of addressing the grateful sentiments of the French party to Lord Brougham, for his efforts in bringing about the retirement of Lord Durham, was, no doubt, a shabby affair ; but what an idea of imbecility does it give, that any body of men should have been permitted to meet for such a purpose at a moment so critical in their affairs, and when they were on trial, as it were, be fore the world ! What can they possibly gain by prov inc, to the world that a disposition to con ciliate is thrown ' away on them, that the only reward a sin cere disposition to adopt healing measures can expect from them is insult? Do they wish to justify the more severe course to which the removal of Lord Durham will probably lead? The time, however, calls for decision. The interests of two fine Provinces and of the whole Em pire, compromised by delay, call for the speedy adoption of efficacious measures. To conciliate the French Cana dians is impossible ; to benefit them, as well as the inhabi tants of British descent, by measures suited to the crisis, is possible. —Morning Chronicle. Nothing can be imagined more tame and twaddling than the tone and language of the morning organ of the Go vernment concerning Lord Durham's appeal to the people of British America. To defend his Lordship's address is impossible, but to offend his Lordship himself might be impolitic, and hence the Ministerial writer is in what is familiarly called a quandary, and we dare say very de voutly wishes that Lord Durham and his proclamations had gone to the bottom of the Saint Lawrence, rather than have produced so much inconvenience here. Oh ! if it were but possible—if it could by any means be reconciled with the preposterous and nauseous flat teries of the last ten months—how gladly would the Morning Chronicle now fall upon the rash, ridiculous, and irritated Lord, and tear to pieces the repu tation which it has absurdly (because in the teeth of events) been labouring to uphold ! a The Whigs and the e Whig press can very we ll manage merely vain man whom the gross flatteries of to-day will soothe after the cool affronts of yesterday, which circumstances had ren dered necessary; but a man like Lord Durham, who adds fiery irritability to insatiable vanity, is too much for them. Nothing but a resolute support of his wrong-doing will avert his wrath, and resolution in any cause, whether good or bad, is a quality foreign to the present Administration, and not to be expected from any of its hacks. That they are angry with Lord Durham is almost as evident as that they ought to be so, and that they do not dare to be se, openly and unreservedly— Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, They hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. This is most contemptible, but the explanation is, that it is Ministerial. Can the Ethiopian change his colour, or the leopar‘l l his spots ? By way of apology for his Lordship —who is nevertheless reminded that he would have done better to has held his tongue for the present—the cuckoo note is repeated of the " despotic" authority with which Lord Durham was invested. His Lordship's words are re iterated that " When Parliament. concentrated all legis lative and executive po wer in Lower Canada in the same hands, it established an ,authority which in the strictest ;sense of the w ord was despoi x." Antici p ating that the which professes an extraordinary devotedness to l our nal odar rwbert would, v io l with its usual c onsistenc y , ea ge r ly dump' 1 thisY excuse for the Go vernor of Canada, we have already shown in the Morning Post (an itthat it is sheer ignorance on easy 11 . Lord Durham, or of any one, to ima the part tas:k' Des:wasd at any time entrusted gine • that Parliament ha at Lordship any time created, a des with, or that Whether it would not have been potic power in Canado.- t i o nt h o a c v o e n c s r id e e a r t a e t d ion a more politic in the Parlirencta—natdaaksin_g the rebellious state of t e It Is enough for the dis temporary d e spotic power for the suppression of rebellion, it is not now necessary to argue. , eussion of Lord Durham's conduct to be well aware that the Parliament did not make the wooer Conada a despot, that it did not make G o vernor re d o e ! d as peu l / 4 4ent of the law, and to know also that Lord Durham, in t h e , execution of' his office of such G . overnor, acte thotlgh Parliament had done that which it did not do. Lord. D a :ham, by his own account . of what . he understands . t to have done, proves his very ignorance of the his office was created, and thereby the pithy expression of the st, Duk ha e use of Lords lasi Augu tt ie Noble Earl was not fit al l ,i t ij." That was just the cast ; was acting with an authority " in the strictest sense of the fact, hp was acting upon an au- Parliament • w Ze . r - wit z t - e - 1 - I'his , • L- very -44,yta ;s:„. . •tter t es i kr.Bl'' ~.... , , ' ous • i t ' ‘) ''.. - 74,01, 0,- ,. ~ th s •1,..a , ~;•_,....,..,,,„.. oli .00. , ?; . ...... r icinii. e 1,..... . ..,.. 4 , Gent 4. Afe i . . . 4, 4; in fa , , a r , 4 Al ft- c... THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1838. thority which was strictly limited. However, it must be confessed that the ignorance of Lord Durham, touching the statute under which he was acting, was scarcely greater than that of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, for that Nobleman declared, in his place in Parliament, on the loth of August last, that the Act for the Government of Ca nada was, as it stood, " evidently an absurdity." The Act had been then about six months in existence, and we leave the friends of his Lordship to decide whether he sent Lord Durham to Canada to act under a statute of which he (the Prime Minister) was ignorant, or sent him to govern under the sanctions of a legislative authority which he knew to be " evidently absurd." Upon his own showing he must have done either the one or the other. But was the statute under which Lord Durham acted so doubtful in its interpretation—so ambiguously worded, as to render it excusable that he should mistake its meaning ? Did it seem to establish "an authority in the strictest sense of the word despotic," though lawyers could discern that it did no such thing ? Was the illegal act committed by Lord Durham one into which he might naturally have fallen from the probability of the statute, by which he was to be guided, being misunderstood ? No such thing. The error was gross and palpable. There was no excuse for it, unless utter carelessness, combined with a ready disposition to play the despot, can be deemed an ex cuse. Most justly did the Duke of Wellington, in his place in Parliament, thus describe what Lord Durham had done : " A grossly illegal act had been committed—not a mere technical error, or one having reference to a small or nice point of law, but an illegal act of great magnitude, and relat ing to points of the most grave importance—an act so clearly illegal that no man capable of reading an Act of Parliament, or of understanding the first principles of justice, could doubt of its illegality or its impropriety." And yet this is the Act which Lord Durham considers to have been justified by the authority with which Parlia ment had invested him—an authority which he has had the audacity to describe in his very last outrage upon Govern ment as " in the strictest sense of the word despotic !" Let it not be said that the Duke of Wellington's opinion is not to be trusted because he was " a factious opponent" of Lord Durham, and of the Administration that sent him out. To say this is to be guilty of an insolent absurdity, which none but the most extravagantly and virulently fac tious can harbour for a moment. The Duke's language all along was to the effect that it was absolutely necessary to "set right" the Government in Canada which had gone wrong. He agreed with Lord Melbourne in the impolicy as well as unpleasantness of frequent criticism in the House of Lords upon the conduct of the Governor of Canada, but he treated the illegal ordinance as an event with which the House and the Government could not help interfering unless they gave up all superintending care of the empire, and assumed an utter indifference between right and wrong. It is strange that the Ministerial writer does not, or will not, see—though nothing can be more obvious—that if the Legislature and Government had not interfered to " set right" the Government in Canada, the interference would have come from the other side, and have brought shame and disgrace upon the Government. Is there any human being, with intelligence enough to count te❑ upon his fingers, who supposes that Lord Durham's illegal acts would not have been resisted had he been allowed to go on in his ignorant dreams of the possession of despotic authority ? Is it not absolutely certain that he must have been successfully resisted ? The Canadian malcontents, and the men in this country who help them, are not either such dull or such timorous men as to have allowed Lord Durham to go on playing his " despotic " pranks upon no better authority than his own ignorant supposition that he was statutably and " strictly" a despot. That persons pro fessing " liberalism " should wish for the continued exercise of despotic authority, so long as it was to be exercised by one of their own party, is not at all surprising ; but it is strange that even they should have the folly to imagine that despotism would be submitted to by vigilant and energetic people, who knew there was no law to give it sanction or support. Lord Ellenborough truly said, in the House of Lords, that the illegal ordinance ought not to be suffered, since whatever popularity a particular measure might enjoy at any particular moment in Canada, or in any country, it must, if itself unlawful, ultimately produce resistance on the part of the people.—Morning Post. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—An opera in three acts, under the imposing title of Francis the First, was pro duced at this theatre on Tuesday. The author of the drama is anonymous, and he will do well to preserve his incognito, for his handiwork will do him no credit. The music is by Mr. E. I. Loder. This is an addition to the numerous instances which we are under the painful necessity of recording of good music, on our stage, being crushed under the weight of dra matic dulness. There is a good deal of merit in Mr. Loder's music ; but its merit consists more in ingenious and artist-like construction than in striking and original melody. There is, in truth, a want of freshness about it, and it would seem that the composer's memory has been more active in producing it, than his imagination. The best compositions have not, in their words, the slightest connection with the situation in which they are introduced, and (we are inclined to suspect) have been composed without any reference to this opera. Among these we may especially mention the pretty song, " My heart reverts with fond emotion," sung by Miss Romer ; the ballad in the third act sung by Mr. Phillips ; and a very beautiful chorus of vine-dressers in the second act. The orchestra is managed throughout with consummate skill, and the instru mental effects are frequently',charming ; and of the music ge nerally it may be said that, though insufficient to support a bad drama, it would have added greatly to the attractions of a good one. The piece was well performed. Phillips in such a character as this Francis the First, was in a false position, but he sang very beautifully. Miss Romer made every exer tion to do justice to her part. The claquers were in such force, and so energetic in their plaudits, that it was impossi ble to say what was the opinion of the audience ; but our im pression is that this opera will not sustain many representa- tions. MEETING OF THE THEATRICAL PROFESSION. —Yesterday afternoon, in accordance with public advertise ment, the first general meeting of the members of the thea trical profession took place in the saloon of the Haymarket Theatre (Mr. B. Webster, the proprietor, having in the most handsome manner previously tendered the loan of the same to the Committee), for the purpose of t akin g into considera t ion the propriety of establishing a Theatrical Benevolent Union, having for its object the relief of aged and decayed actors and actresses. From the very great interest which the subject at present excites in the theatrical world, the saloon was crowded almost to suffocation by the members of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, and the corps dramatique of the Haymarket, Adelphi, English Opera, Olympic, Strand, Surrey, Sadlers Wells, City of London, Pavilion, and other Minor Theatres. Mr. James Sheridan Knowles was unani mously called on to preside. On his taking the chair he was most warmly applauded. After having briefly opened the business of the meeting, the address of the Committee, set ting forth the objects of the Association, was read by the secre tary. After which resolutions were discussed, and details settled, and a Committee appointed of representatives of the different theatres. Mr. Serle then proposed, " That the heartfelt thanks of this meeting be accorded to James Sheri dan Knowles, Esq., for the very cordial interest he has evinced in the well-being of the profession at large, and for the ala crity with which he has come forward to promote the benevo lent objects of the Association." The motion was immediately seconded, and carried amidst loud cheering, and the meeting dispersed after Mr. Knowles had warmly returned thanks for their cordial compliment. FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN LIVERPOOL.— , Between the hours of one and two yesterday ( Sunday) morn ing the inhabitants of King-street were alarmed by the watch- man's cry of " Fire !" and on the arrival of Mr. Rose, the su perintendent of the fire police, who was quickly that nth fire espot, accompanied by his brigade, it was ascertained the hadAbr Abram br o,ke tobacconist,out in a cellar.,s,e which s, underneathvery y f o t r h t e u n s a h t o e p l y 0 .1 f s M u nro. ccMorriss at night. Shortly after the engine had begun to at play,Leher way, Rose was informed that a poor old man (named it p u r i p s n b s believed) I o i e f v ed) guardingwa s o t the e w a d h j i o c i h n , i n f g ear premises, igthta e f for r en th s e unless aroused the poor old fellow would be smothered b y the smoke which enveloped the house, he broke open the and, accompanied by a fi rema n named Murphy, proceeded the f u mes they door, and, stairs in search of him. So overpowering were encountered, that Murphy, aft e r a short combat with them,hieh was compelled to com e ou t ; i mme diately after doing w he fell down in a state of stupor. Mr. Rose, however, shortly afterwards discovered the object of their search, who, appa rently to screen himself from the suffocating effects of the insidious enemy which was coiling around him, was rolled up in the blankets of his bed quite insensible, from which state, alas Ihe never recovered. By three o'clock the active exer tions of the fire brigade had completely subdued the devouring clement ; and, although Mr. Abram's loss must be heavy, yet we are happy to say the fire was strictly confined to his own premises.—Liverpool Paper. A fire took place on Tuesday morning in the Old Kent-road, which in a very short time consumed property to the extent of 2,0001. or 3,0001. It commenced on the premises of Mr. T. Grimes, boot and shoe maker, No. 6, Northampton-place, which was totally consumed. Several houses adjoining are also greatly damaged. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Tuesday morning, at one o'clock, a Commission of Lunacy was opened at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn, before Commissioners Phil limore, Winslow, and Martin West, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss Louisa Ridge, at present an inmate of Brook House, Upper Clapton, whose family reside in the neighbour. ' hood of Yarmouth. The Chief Commissioner then summed up, and the Jury withdrew to consider their verdict. After about half an hour's absence they returned, when Sir James Williams read, " That Louisa Ridge is a lunatic, without lucid intervals ; and the Jury, with one dissentient, are of opi nion that she has been so since the Ist of October, 1835, and incapable of managing herself or her property." On Tuesday morning, between six and seven o'clock, as a van, heavily laden with vegetables, was proceeding over Waterloo -bridge, an old man attempted to e g to e u t de o id n seer t n h gt e haeg s e h n a eh f ar t i s s a f tt e d ll d , o a n n i d .erk h . is hnea h hm e , a ea d de. a o eg v: e e md r . , the bat, - and lie fore-wheel . ..i W n htelleel.attennmyy a t ~.. . . , ,- ez t from .,l l i iis a h sl a ig t, ht th g e ra w ze ut...; I escaped sm.- have passed over his body. the back of 1 ." 2 head , Had he . ..milt fallen but a little further under the shafts, the wheels ..... MONEY AND CITY NEWS (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIM E S.—Malta papers to the 25th of October have been received via Marseilles. They contain little beyond brief notices of the intelligence lately made public from India. It is stated, that the hostile movements of the Indian Govern ment were resolved upon in consequence of the discovery of some Russian spies in the country, whose papers, having fallen into the hands of the authorities, laid open an extensive tem of intrigue among the native princes, many of whom, it was feared, would have yielded to Russian influence but for the adoption of determined measures. Advices from Smyrna to the 30th of September had been received in Malta, announcing that two cases of plague occurred in that city on the 17th, and that the disease still existed in the surrounding country, which was in free communication with Smyrna. - According , to papers from Havannah to the end of Sep tember, difficulties had been experienced in carrying into effect the new tariff imposing supplementary duties on goods imported. It was opposed in various parts of the island, and the consequence was, that by a decree of the authorities of Puerto Principe, the chief place of the province of the same name, dated the 15th of September, it had been entirely sus pended until the decision of the Government of Madrid could be ascertained. This is the mode in which unpopular mea sures are usually got rid of in all parts of Spain, but more especially and resolutely in the transrnarine possessions. It was considered, therefore, more than probable that the new tariff of duties would eventually fall to the ground. CHRONICLE.—The accounts from Spain to-day appear to be of the most melancholy description as regards the blood shed from the retaliation of both parties when their opponents fall into their hands, nullifying completely the Eliot treaty ; and it should at the same time be observed, that the whole of the advices within the last few days show a more determined spirit of vengeance on the part of the Christinos against all parties supposed to be favourable to Carlist principles. The measures lately attempted to negotiate a loan with the Go vernment of Spain, which would have enabled the Executive to act with greater energy, have been considerably frustrated, it appears, by the want of friendship, and, in fact, the exist ence of enmity, amongst the most influential contractors of loans, but it is now said that a reconciliation has been brought about, and a combination of money interests formed with a view of completing some financial arrangement with the Go vernment; and hopes are therefore entertained that the result so long desired and looked for by the bondholders and all parties interested in Spanish matters, will now be effected. H ERA LD.—Money continues so very easy upon the Stock Exchange, that large amounts of stock, which continues very scarce, have been borrowed for the Account, producing again a backwardation, as during the early part of the day Consols for Money were quoted at 94k and 94 for Account. Large purchases of stock have also been made by a great portion of the London and country bankers, in addition to which the Government Commissioners have laid out 20,0001. sterling in Reduced Annuities at 931, 10,000/. of which was on account of the savings' banks, and the other moiety to be converted into fixed annuities. Consols closed at 93k a 94 for Money and the Account of the 27th inst. The Three-and-a-Half per Cent Reduced Annuities are 1001 a 1, and the New Three and a-Half per Cents., 1011 ak. Bank Stock is 201 - a 202, Money, India Stock is 260 Money, and 261 Time. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced to 67 a 69, and on India Bonds to 63. There has not been any disposition manifested to-day for speculation in the Foreign Bonds, and the Peninsular Secu rities have closed particularly heavy. In the Share Market there has been neither much activity nor alteration. Great Western are 131 a 14 prem. ; Brighton are 2/ dis. ; Birmingham are 83 prem. ; and the Quarter ditto Shares, 24 a k prem. ; Greenwich are 3/ dis. ; South ampton, 4 dis. ; Manchester and Leeds, 19 a prem. ; Cla ridge's Asphalte are 1 a 1 disc. ; Bahia Steam, k disc. ; and the Shares of the Union Bank of Australia, 5 prem. POST.—The money market continues in the peculiarly easy position that has induced a disposition to borrow stock for the Account, and this circumstance (coupled with the fact that a considerable portion of the London and country banking in terests have been making purchases of Consols for Money to day) has again produced what is termed " a backwardation" of percent. The United Service Journal is excellent this month. The contributors to this popular periodical are men who thoroughly comprehend the subjects they discuss, and a great deal of valuable information is to be monthly gleaned from +he records of their reflections and experience. Every correspond ent in turn seems to be a practical man. Here there are no dreamers and speculators. We can fancy that each contributor in succession has lost his eye, his arm, or his leg. Luckily none of them have lost their memories. Most of the writers, too, we are bound to add, are well disposed to shun the de bateable ground of politics, and to fall back from the realities of the present time upon reminiscences of Trafalgars and Wa terloos—content to demonstate what war has been and might be—to " Shoulder the crutch, and show how fields were won," and quarter-decks cleared for action. We know not how certain branches of the study of either profession can be more effectually facilitated than by consulting the experienced les sons which are to be met with in this miscellany ; and of its generally entertaining qualities the present Number contains several convincing proofs ; indeed, it is a more than usually interesting one to the non-professional reader, from comprising several articles which, although they have a bearing upon mi -1 litary and naval history, are nevertheless full of instruction and amusement that will prove acceptable to all classes of society. Among them more particularly are a paper on the " Progress of Modern Duelling," brought down to the commencement of the present century, in which are recounted the most remark able duels that have occured in England up to that period ; the article on " Nautical Inventions," contrasting the discove ries of the ancients in science generally with those of the pre sent time ; and the papers on the " Decline of the Turkish Em pire," and " Burmah and the Burmese during the late War." HOP INTELLIGENCE.--WORCESTER, Nov. 2.--- We had a further reduction on Saturday in the prices of the inferior qualities of new Hops, which, in many instances, was again ss. per cwt. lower, but the better classes were bought up at full as high prices as last week, as this portion is so short, that it is quite rare to see a good sample offered, we cannot calculate on any further decline in prices on those qualities. Weighed on Saturday, 231 new, and 59 old pockets. Present prices, per cwt. :—Poor brown sorts, 565. to 655. to 70s. ; fine, 80s. to 955. Yearlings, brown, 635. to 735. to 755. ; fine, 80s. to 90s. 1836'5, 455. to 655. The recent rapid voyage of the New York and Havre sailing packet Silvie de Grasse, bearing Lord Dur ham's proclamation, &c., strikingly illustrates the point of ex cellence to which this fine class of vessels has attained. She started from New York to Havre only three days before that powerful steamer the Royal William left that port direct for Liverpool, performed her usual voyage, and, in continuation from Havre, in three days more to London, where her news was only fifteen hours later than that brought by the Royal William. The intelligence reached Paris several hours-before it arrived in this capital. We understand that the Parisians owe this early news to the activity of the Quebec agent of the spirited proprietor of the North and South American Coffee-house. An extraordinary instance of despatch in the dis charge of cargo has just been witnessed in the London Docks. On Saturday last, at half-past four o'clock P. M., the Jean Grah a m, Captain Henry Thornton, from the Mauritius, with a freight on board of 5,600 bags of sugar, entered the Docks, commenced landing her cargo at five o'clock, and by seven o'clock on Sunday morning had completed her discharge within a few bags, which were left on board to ballast the ves sel until the proper kentledge could be procured on the Monday following. The Jean Graham had been a good deal strained during the late gales, and some damage done to the cargo, which was the occasion of this extraordinary despatch and continuance of labour to the Sunday morning. REFORM ASSOCIATION DINNER.—On Wednes day evening 300 gentlemen dined in the Public-rooms, Aber deen, in honour of the " Reform Registration Association." The chair was occupied by the City Member, supported on the right by Provost Milne ; Sir Thomas Burnett, of Leys, Bart. ; Captain Kyle, of Binghill ; Thomas Best, Esq., wine merchant ; Charles Grainger, Esq. ; Harry Leith Lumsden, Esq.—on the left by Sir John Forbes, of Craigievar ; Sir Michael Bruce, of Scotstown, Bart. ; Captain Craigie ; Mr. Forces, of Rothmasie ; Alexander Blaikie, Esq. ; Thomas Bannerman, Esq. ; Mansfield Forbes, Esq., Lewis Crombie, Esq., Alexander Stronach, Esq., Alexander Gordon, Esq., and James Allan, Esq., acted as croupiers. The Rev. Mr. Angus, of the United Secession, asked a blessing, and the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, of the Independents, returned thanks. Speaking of the entertainment, the Aberdeen Herald has the following remarks:—" The Conservative dinner partv—con sisting of renegades like Ross of Rossie, and Gordon - of Craig—trimmers like Mr. David Chalmers, and Mr. Thomas Burnett —strangers, lairds. and lairdlings, and a host of reluctant farmers from the country, and carpet-weavers f ro m Hadden's factory—has been followed by a real de monstration of the opinions and wishes of the citizens of Aberdeen. The company assembled in the County Rooms, principle s o f R e f orm , on Wednesday last, included a larger number of the electoral body than ever p reviously turned out on an occasion of the same kind, arid the whole to n e and t e m per of the proceedings coolness attachment my a t o exist th towards some o f t h e the men who have had t he dut y of carrying them into p ractical operation. Mr. B annerman, Chairman, w as excee di ng l y whateverindicated of f happy in his remar ks. Besides s the admirable hit in his quo tation from the opinions of the early Reformers on the appro priation principle —he made the best, and, indeed, th e on ly really good defence we have seen, of the conduct of Minis ters on the Irish tithe question. Sir Thomas Burnett had some able and cutting remarks on the nonsense sported at the Conservative dinner. Mr. Ross, of Rossie, who, like all proselytes, endeavours to establish the sincerity of his new professions by the violence of his abuse of those with whom he formerly acted, has on several occasions, and especially in Ross-shire, calumniated in the grossest terms the whole of the Liberal party." • A violent fire brok e out in the night of the Ist in stant at the Hotel des Trois Marchands, at Nantes, where M. and Madame Franconi, and Mademoiselle Virginie Kennebel were stopping. ' The husband and wife were in bed when the alarm was given. The danger was imminent. M. Victor Franconi, without allowing himself or his wife to put on any clothes, wrapped her in a sheet, and let her slide down from the window of the room into the street, where, en chemise and sans chaussure, she was received into the arms of a stout fireman. The neighbours in their haste brought her some male attire, ill which the lac 7 was hastily clad, and taken to a place Of ,:r.f:V; LAW INTELLIGENCE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT- Nov. 7. BELL V. PLUCK. Mr. KNIOHT BRUCE moved on the part of the plaintiff, for an injunction to restrain the defendant Bluck from negotiating six promissory notes for 6751. in the whole, which he had received from the plaintiff in March, 1837, as part of the price for a share in a partnership which was then entered into be tween them and one Graves, as printsellers, on the premises lately occupied by Colnaghi, in Cockspur-street. The mo tion also sought a receiver, as preliminary to a dissolution of the partnership. Mr. JACOB opposed the motion. His HONOUR refused the motion • with costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. DAVIES V. LOWNES. Mr. GRAY moved in this case, which was a writ of right, for a commission to examine an old lady about eighty years of age, who resided nearly 200 miles from London. The Learned Gentleman moved on affidavits stating these facts; but he had no affidavit from the surgeon in attendance upon the lady. He, however, submitted to the Court that his affidavits clearly showed that this lady was not in a state of health in which she could safely travel so great a distance. The Court were of opinion that the surgeon ought to make an affidavit of the state of the lady's health, and until he did so they could not issue a commission. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 7. BROWN V. GODDAkD. This was an action tried before Mr. Baron ALDERSON at the York Assizes, when a verdict passed for the plaintiff, with da mages to the amount of 3161. 14s. 7d. Mr. COWLING now moved for a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, or why the damages should not be reduced to fifty pounds. The par ties were partners as proprietors of the Hull Packet, and had engaged a gentleman named Quin as editor, at a salary of 3001. a-year, under an agreement that at the end of a year they should either take him into partnership or pay him the sum of 5001. At the end of the year they refused to take him into partnership, and he was obliged to bring his action against them, in which he recovered 3001. for his salary, and 5001. upon his agreement. The parties, separated in the be ginning of the following year, and a Mr. Wilson was ap pointed to wind up the affairs of the concern, both of the defendants covenanting to contribute if he had not funds to liquidate all demands. The plaintiff paid his contribution ; but the defendant refused to do so, and the present action was brought to compel him. He had paid 160/. into Court, as his share of the 3001., and had pleaded that he was always willing to take Mr."Quin into partnership; but that the plain tiff refused to do so, and, therefore, the rest of the money and costs had arisen from the plaintiff's own default. This had been admitted on the trial, and the principal question was whether the defendant was liable to pay any part of the 5001., and if so, as he allowed judgment to go by default, whether he was liable to any of the costs. The point went to reduce the verdict to 2501. The Court granted the rule. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nor. 7. IN THE MATTER OF HORATIO CLAGETT, ESQ. In this case an application was made on the part of Mr. Clagett for a re-hearing, and Mr. Commissioner Law granted a rule absolute in the first instance. The parties on whom that rule was served (a Miss Elizabeth Banks and Mr. Reu ben Terrewest, an attorney), came to the Court to rescind the order, on the ground that they should have been allowed to show cause. The re-hearing was fixed for to-day, and leave was given to argue the question in limine. Mr. Cooke (with whom was Mr. Woodroffe) appeared for Mr. Clagett. Mr. Nichols, on the part of Miss Banks, and Mr. Creswell, for Mr. Terrewest, applied to discharge the rule.. After the case had been argued at some length, it stood over for the decision of the four Learned Commissioners. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN. S Q UA RE. James Bateman, a man who has been before convicted of felony, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing a large quantity of wearing apparel, the property of George Trundle, Esq., a gentleman holding a situation in the Irish Office. Prisoner when placed in the dock was confined in a strait waistcoat, and the front of his clothing was covered with blood. . Mr. Trundle stated that about five weeks ago he left home for the country, his apartments being in charge of two female servants. On his return last Monday he was much surprised at finding nearly all his wearing apparel had been abstracted from his clothes-press. He immediately gave information to Smith, an officer of this establishment, who, on questioning the servants, ascertained that the prisoner had been in the habit of visiting them and sleeping there every night during the prosecutor's absence. Prisoner, on being apprehended, was found dressed in a suit of Mr. Trundle's clothes. Algernoon Smith stated that he took the prisoner into cus tody at the back gate of the Irish Office, Great Queen-street, Westminster, and took him down into the kitchen. He had hardly been there a minute, when prisoner seized a carving knife and inflicted a severe wound in his throat with it, observ ing, ‘. He had done them now." Surgical aid was imme diately procured, and the wound was dressed, but prisoner on his way to the station-house became very violent, and tore the wound open afresh. A strait-waistcoat was then put on him, and a strict watch was kept during the night. Prisoner, when called upon, had the effrontery to declare the things were his own. On the whole of the property found on him being identified, prisoner was fully committed for trial. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Frederick Dawson Bundick, with a number of aliases attached to his name, was brought up for re-examina tion, charged with the following robberies :—The prisoner is the son of highly respectable parents, and a young man of remarkably genteel appearance. For some length of time he has been discarded from his family owing to the dissi pated and disgraceful life he has been leading. On a recent occasion he won the affections of a young female, the daughter of respectable parents, and having married her, almost imme diately afterwards abandoned her, taking from her father's house some articles of dress belonging to a young gentle man living there. He next went to an eating-house, from whence he took a table-cloth, which he contrived to fold about his person in such a manner as to elude the observation of the person belonging to the house. In the course of last week he met with a recruiting party of the 12th Lancers, and having intimated a desire to become a soldier, he enlisted in regiment. Ac the Sergeant was taking him to his quarters the prisoner requested the loan of his military cloak, which, on being complied with, be took an opportunity of slipping off, and it was afterwards discovered that he had pledged the cloak and spent the money, together with the bounty he had received on enlisting. Evidence of the prisoner having stolen three coats, a table cloth, and the Sergeant's cloak, having been taken down, he was committed for trial. In the course of the examination it was stated that the prisoner was tried at the Central Criminal Court for robbing a lady of a gold watch, and sentenced to be transported ; the sentence, how ever was commuted to imprisonment in the Penitentiary ; that in the month of January last he was again tried for stealing some articles of dress, for which he had also suffered impri sonment, and, in fact, that be had been for a considerable length of time leading a most dishonest life. When the prisoner was asked if he had anything to say in answer to the alleged charges, his reply was that he should at present decline saying anything in his defence, which he should reserve until he was tried. He was then removed. FAMINE.—THE DEVIL'S LAWS.—The price of Wheat, notwithstanding the large supplies, continues to ad. vance in the Wakefield market. There call be no doubt that, before Christmas, prices will have reached a famine rate. The question is, whether the manufacturing interests will submit to have trade annihilated in order that a small fraction of the community may have high rents. The question is one of life or death. It is nuw to be determined whether cur trade shall be gradualiy withdrawn from us, or whether by an united effort it shall be retained. —Manchester Times. THE RETORT UNCOURTEOUS.—A few days ago a gentleman was summoned to the Court of Requests, when the Learned Commissioner, through some confused notion that he was the proprietor of a public-house, asked defendant if his wife was at the bar ? The defendant answered that she was too young ; but, as several old women bad been called to it he thought his wife might yet aspire to that high honour.— Liverpool Standard. DEATH OF MR. J. P. WOOD.—We regret to re cord the death of this distinguished and excellent individual. Mr. Wood was deaf and dumb from his infancy, and yet at tained to no mean eminence as an author. His " History of the Parish of Cramond," his " Life of Jobn Law, of Lauri ston," and his edition of " Douglas's Peerage of Scotland," have placed his name in a high rank as an antiquary, genealo gist, and biographer. Minute research and severe accurac y mark every page he wrote. He was descended from an o l d and respectable family in the parish of Cramond, and long held the office of Auditor of Excise in Scotland, the duties of which he discharged with fidelity and success.—Edinburgh Chronicle. ISLE OF SKYE.—The hurricane which seems to have been so severely felt throughout all Scotland, on the 11th and 12th of October, was felt most severely in this quarter, on the 11th. It was accompanied by heavy showers of snow as it f e ll, ex cept on the mountain tops. W ith the exception of a few green patches, the crops were previously all cut, and in some instances secured in the corn-yard. Generally, how ever, the corn was in huts and stooks on the fields, and in con sequence of the violence of the gale, it was scattered in all directions, where it was allowed to lie for some days, until the weather became somewhat moderate to enable it to be collected. It cannot be said that the crops suffered much injury in conse quence, ex cept in a few cases where it w as d r ift e d i nto the sea. It is found in most places that the potatoes will be consider ably deficient, both in bulk and quality, yet it is hoped that they will prove a fair average crop. The gale proved very d es tructive to the fishing boats near the I s l an d of Raa,say, many o f which were broken to pieces, and it is supposed that no fewer than five men perished, who were that morning en gaged in lifting their herring nets. Many more had most miraculous escapes, who had been drifted on the rocks where their boats were broken into fragments. The sudden shift ing of the wind proved very dangerous at sea, When the hurricane was at its highest pitch the Western Ocean!rolled in a manner truly terrific. The lofty billows were enveloped in dense spray ; and the whit,. foaming sea, as far as the eye could penetrate, appeared like a huge flat of drifting mow.— Inverness Herald, PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS i FRENCH CORN AVERAGES. ASSITR.ANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. ti c. IY, NOV 6 ;-_,: )7`, :.• ' \ , 11, Numner Oiridend ~.., of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. &'aid. Share 1,765 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oidliarn....AVerage 97/.lBs. sh. 135 1,082 41. Ashby-de-le-touch . ........ Average nr;..sh. 73 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl.O. 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 1501. MI. 8,000 1-I6sh. 9/ 6s. Birnlngham, 1-16th share 81/. & 711. 1 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l ,i 'l/ sh. 100 pd 600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/ sh. all pd 400 4/. Chehner and Blackwater - ............ 100/. sh. 500 481 C3ventry ',CO/ sh. 4,545 Croydon 2,016 4, Oa. Dudley 6°o 141 . Derby 100/ sh 20,00 4 per cent .)anune and Ni,yne 3,57 M 3/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 123/.4a. 231 46'. Erewas h 0 4 ,4 on. 1,297 .2.q . Forth and Clyeic As crave lOW, ' (s. to. I 1,601) 121. Grand Junc'^ - 1,44. sh. %/gill 1/. Grand Unrnn p.O/.sh 11.5(0) Grand Surrey ..... _ 0,000/. 11. percent. Ditto (optiona l ) Loa „. n 1(.30. 3 ig6 600 131.125. 6d. Glamorganshire, Avcrapi cost 1721.135. 4,1 '749 104. Grantham 150/. sh, 6,238 21. Os Huddersfield Average 57/. 68. fid. Si,. 100 Kensington 10 ,, sh all pd. 5,328 11. 55. Kennet ;nd Avon, Average 39/.183. lod. sh 2,897; 241. Leeds and Liverpool 1014. sh. 545 131. Leicester l4O/. sh. 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Nortiaampton...Aver. o3 /. Ifts. 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 1001. sh. 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001. ell. 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield lOW. sh. all pd. 24/7 17/. Neath 1001. sh. 9,400 51. Peak Forest Average about 76/. sh. 1,418 126. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 500 8/. Shropshire /251. sh. 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 3,600/. 4i per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock ...... ...... 12/. 10s. sh. 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 91. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791.95. Pd. sh. 533 151. Swansea 100/. sh. 3,762 01. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway-Av 35/. sh, 2,6noish. 221. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 100/. sh. 8.149 Thames I,,nd Nledway... Aver. 19/. hs. Bd. sh. 1,0005h.1 161. Warwick aud Birmingham 1001. sh. I,ooooh. 980 15s. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. , 000 41.05. Worcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/. Bs. sh. 5,000 255. Wilts an., Berke; .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 800 31, W yrley and Essington 1251. sh 126 905 U. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. DOCKS. 218 24A 64 101 735 M 00& }3p. c Commercial 4lO/. sh. 56 1,06515 h East and West India 3,234,31011. 555. p.ct. London Stock 61 Ditto iSonds lOl 2409 21. 19s. Bristol 6,324/. 51. par cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 107 500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bond s lO2 2t , 1;,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years looe £.500 , ..., Deptford Piet BRIDGES. 1,600 les. Hammersnnti 5Ol. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 11. 15e. Ditto, New, of 71 r, cent. 5O/. sh. 144 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh. 34 5,000 ISs. Sd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6Ol. pd 2l 5,000 Ifs. Id. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 181 80,000/. M. per cent. Ditto Bonds ll2 5,948 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 23 ASSURANCE COMPANIFES. 2,00$ 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 73 50,000 (5 per cent./ 1_ and 15s. Alliance,British &Foreign 100/. sh. 1041. pd 14 4 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 64 24,000 41. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 144 1,200 ;sh. 5/. Birmingham 1' ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501. sh. 5/. pd 6 5,000 5!. per cent. Clerical, Medi.. al,&c. Life, ICOL sh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 2/ lOs County 100/ sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. 2 ,-,, (5 per cent./ 501. sh. 5/. pd 51 Eagle 1000/. sh. 2501. pd 375 Economic Lite /and 301 bs._l 2,271 225. per cent. European Li, • 11 01. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, Ne w 2O/. sh. 2/. pd ri 1,000,0001. 71. per ct Globe stock 1451 20,000 5/ . Guard ian lOO/. sh. 271/ pd 351 10,000 6s. 6d. Hope 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 6 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Eire 5001. sh. 501. pd 130 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 104 13,452 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine PO/. sh. psi 23 2,020 3/ 10s Kent Fi re 5O/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 30 5,000 10s. London, Fire °5l sh. 12/. 10s, pd 10 3,904 10s. London, Ship °U sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 30,0,10 51. per cent. Palladium lat.. 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 2/ Ss 03 50,000 4/. per cent. Protestor Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. lid 17s Od 2,500 I/. Provident Lime lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. U. pd 64 649,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exch,aige Stock... 2254 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 54 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 74 JOINT S'IOCK BANKS '25,000 8 per cent. Agric and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh sh. 101. pd 5,000 Australasia 4O/ 40/ pd 67 10,,00 10 percent. Bank of Bii iningham sl'l. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 le per cent. Birmingham Bank . 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 161 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster -100/ sh. 201. pd 213 s 61),001 51. London Joint Stock 51/. sh. 101. pd 134 5,000 4 per cent. Lancaster......... ........ .. lOO/. eh. 20/. pd 50 25,11(10 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 234 100,000 74 per cent Manchester and Liverpool/ 50/. sh. 15/ pd 23 District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1004 sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. '251. p 3 434 SO, s CO National Bank of Ireland 5l l/. sh. 171/. pd 16 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd 314 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 101. pd 20 6,000 leper cent. Hampshire 501. sh. Si. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 116 s Od Bath 2Ol. sh. 161. pel 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 214 5000 p l a g t e g i e . 7 - .1 Ditto Provincill 20/. sh. 19 pd 221 928 5/ 10s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 1,250 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 31 10s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 114 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 201. sh. le./. pd 9 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 1,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 196 1, 11 00 61. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. 10s. Equitable 'O/, pd 301 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25!. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. Independent '3o!. sh. all pd 49 9,000 Si. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 391. pd 2tl 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. sh. 80/. pd 58 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. oh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 461. pd 291 240 5!. per cant. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 25/ sh. 22; 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 125. Ditto New 5l/. eh. 10/. pd 53; MO Yarmouth 20/. sh. 1$!. pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 251. pd 20 1,434 6/. East London ' 100/ sh. 100 5, 500 2/ lOs Grind Junction ....Average 41 / 13s. 43. sh. 61 . 2,000 21. Kent 100 / sh. 45 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326 1,500 21 lOs Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 59 6 486 1/ 155 Manchester and Salford .,100/ sh. 54 , 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/ sh. 90 9,294 4/. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 125. 9d. sh. 96 1,360 1 ! 14 s York Bui l d i ng Co. Le ssee Prop 100/ sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 4O/. pd 32 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,1 1 00 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 15 pd 7 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd 0 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 100/. sh.'l2l/. 1 3,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 1001. pd 411 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100 /. sh. 51. pd :3 60,1)00 Eastern Counties 25/. eh. 10/.lpd t Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. pd 181 Great North of England lB/. pd 14 5,000 Great Western lOO/. sh. 65/. pd '79 2,000 Hartlepool 10 0 /. sh. 1001 . p d 104 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 204 p 3 IC 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2,1(10 31. per cont. Leeds and Selby .. .... lOO sh. CS 1,530 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 7,7 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-101/.Bh. 100/. pd 19! 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2s/. Pd 61 26,000 London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 14/. pd 11 12,000 London and Blackwall 501, sh. 31. pd 1 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sk. 20/. pd b 2'5,000 London and Birmingham -lOW. sh. 901. pd 17! Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 3( London and Southampton....so4 sh. 511. pd 4( . ..... ... Ditto ditto New ... London and Croydon Trunk 201. sh. oos, pd C Ditto New Scrip London Grand Junction 50!. sh. 5/. pd 1 Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 401, pd 5! Manchester and Birmingham 701.5 h. 101. pd ii North Midland 1001. sh. 551. pd 5 ...... ... Northern and Eastern 100/. sh. 151. pd 1 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50!. sh. 3 , 1, pd 31 23,000 .•....... South Eastern and'Dover 9/. pd 1,000 113/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IGO/. sh. 241 9,00(1 He 5O/. sh 2/. 10s, pd I 1,400 ......... Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. lid 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd 1 MINES. 8,000 ... . ..... Albion Copper 5 !. sh. 3 1/. pd 1 4,000 I/. ss. A 'ten 151. sh. 121. lOs p 3 1 10,000 ... Ditto Subscription 0 .51. pa 2,000 Pl. Bolanos • 1501. sh all pd 9 i 10,000 I/. 103 Brazilian Imp. ss. 5/. pm ..... .35/. sh. 20/ pd 1 6,0, 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United -.25/. eh. 21. pd 1 11,1100 Ditto St. John Del Rey VOL sh. 141. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 211. sh. 20/. pd 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip... 111/. sh. 10/. pd I 20,04 i British Iron . 5ll. sh. 501 pd 6,000 British Copper - . 5/. sh. 441. pd Cata Branca... 6s/. i d Candonga 74!. pd 10,000 11 Copiapo 201. sh, 131. pi 8,500 ... Columbian, iss, 51. pm. 2,850 3/. English 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2o/. sh. 174 NI 1 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 550. pd 3,000 Polherou Consols.. 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered ' 1 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd lt United Mexican, iss 2 pm..... 401. sh. all pd DIM. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork SOL sh. 50/. pd : LITERARY INSTITUTIONS, 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1 1,500 London University 1001. eh. all pd , 700 Russell 25gs. sh. King' College 100/. pd per cent. B A r t i l t s i t s r i a l l A ia i n ne A r g ic r a i n cu L lt a ti n r d al. e . o . m loo pa L n s y h 261 231 /.. N o MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 6,000 4/, 10,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 1001, sh. 001. pd ' 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan i City Bonds, 4 per cent ll 20,000 11. Os. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 141. pd 1 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms... ...... Av. 75/. sh 8,000 Caoutchouc Company' - ...‘ ..s I W 2 I. Pd 500,0001. New Brunswick Land Vc.napany . ... N:d.. - pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary IL uterest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 1 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100!. sh. 754 pd 1 4,0(10 Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd 10,000 6s, Van Diesners's Land 1001 s eh. 171. pet 20000 14,000 6,1)0 12,0 0 0 3,000 10,000 30,000 4,810 ... Ditto Allocated —96/. sh. all pd 504 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Steck Water.... 251. sh. all pd 391 Carron Iron Company 250/. cll. all pd 44/. ?,000sh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Fouridery 50/. sh 4sl, pd 32 4 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 16/. pd 9/ 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 6111. 4,450 10 pe: cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd sti/. 750 7e per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 501. 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rai!way...sol. sh NM 3.000 5 per cent. Equitable, Loan Company 15/. sh. pa 111. lii LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, NOV. A, RINS. BANKS„ 1,500,0001. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scaland • 831.65. Bd. sh. all pd 1931. 2,000,0301. 51 p. et. Rs yal of ScOtind 1001. sh. all pd 162/. '500,0301. p. ct, British r'men Company 1001. sh. all pd 2401. 3,000,0001. 61. p. Cl. Ci_'.*Mmercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd nu. 5.100,0001. CL National lOO/ sh 101. pd 1611. 2,009,0 0 °'... 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 501. pd 851, 1,000,0004 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 401. pd 591. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h 6i p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 14 pd 30s. 7,500 p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14/. Os. 1(10,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland...AU sh. all pd 9/. 10s. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 191. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 101. pd 20/. Os 5,000 fi p. ct. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 104 pd 1 4 / 1 0s 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd Wes MISCELLANEOUS. ioico. of wheat W • Loe 0' OC. 't, i.ar daring 11 ' e undirmentioned 20 years, from 1819 to 1838, the whole re duced into English measure and money : Per Hectolitre. Per Quarter. 1819 ... 151. 29c. equal to 355. Od• 1820 19 56 ..„ 44 9 1821 15 99 36 8 1822 15 55 35 7 1823 15 72 36 0 1824 14 40 33 0 1825 ... 15 24 34 11 1826 15 55 35 7 1827 18 77 43 0 1828 ... 21 69 49 8 1829 21 60 49 5 1830 •• • 23 29 ... 53 4 1831 ••• 22 88 52 5 1832 18 67 42 9 1833 ••• 15 42 35 4 1834 ... 14 56 33 4 1835 ... 13 95 31 11 1836 ... 17 3 39 0 1837 ... 17 63 40 4 1838 ... 20 75 47 7 The average of the whole period is 17f. 68c. per hectolitre, which is equal to 40s. 6d. per quarter, and it will be further remarked 1. That the return of 1835 is the lowest of the whole TI.„ P 11 period. 2. That the return of the present year exceeds the return of last year by 7s. 3d. per quarter. d. 3. That the return of the present year exceeds by 75. - per quarter the average of the whole period. To compare the average prices of wheat in France Wit those of England and Wales, it is necessary to add 20 P er t cent. to the latter for difference in the quality of the whe t! and the difference in the mode of taking the averages, an d it then appearing that the average price of wheat-in Engit n d and Wales for the six weeks ending the 26th ult. is 64 5 . ! the quarter, this, with the addition of 20 per Cent., ma k e 775. 6d., and the average price of wheat in France for tb . same period being 475. 7d., so does it follow that whea t ig 38.6 per cent. lower in France than in England. THE MARKETS. Per Ton. COAL MAR' s. d. Adair's 2l 3 Baker's Main oensham Bute's Tanfield Moor 22 6 Carr's Hartley Chester Main w 2l 6 Garestreld l9 0 Leaze's Main Russell's High Main 2O 3 ranf.ield Moor 23 0 West Hartley 22 6 .ET.—Nov. 7. fair Ton. Walls End Percy Bensham End 24 Was d Walker , Wa ll lt; Braddyll's Hetton 6 6 Walls End Haswell L 6 Walls End Merton walls End Lambton • 24 6 Walls End Russel's Hetton ▪ 4 6 Walls End Stewart's .......... 9 Wal's End H a rtlepool. ...... . 9 Walls End Adelaide Wails End Barrington Tees • ni Walls End Clarence Tees Walls End Seymour Tees 2 1; ', a' s End .... Walls End West Tees Walls End West Hetton .... ▪ ' 2 l l 5 0 Cowoen Walls End Devonshire. clp 6 Walls End Scott ' Holywell Trader ...............•• Aylam 22 6 Cast market day, 83 G THE WE____l,‘" Walls End Clark and Co 2l 3 Walls End Dunn 2O 3 Wafs End Gosforth 23 6 Walls End Heaton, Walls End Hotspur 23 0 r W.llB End Killing , Walls End Northu: Walls End Peareth Sh! worth mberland 22 c 19 0 ipa arrived since 1; COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wr..s'i Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. F ess • to e. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. Abingdon—.... 64 80 30 34 22 30 38 ••••• Andover*. 74 82 29 31 25 43 -- ••• flirmingham--. 63 80 30 40 16 22 33 Bridport 73 80 32 36 26 30 39 Cirencester 64 81 27 32 20 25 32 40 Paringdon—. 65 80 26 30 26 30 46 -• Guildford 68 83 28 35 20 30 46 -"" Henley 72 74 26 32 23 26 43 " 4 1, Hereford 63 88 26 32 22 29 46 •••• Highworth 64 70 32 42 28 34 56 5 9 Maidenhead 63 75 24 36 20 26 34 44 3 4 ••• Monmouth...—. 64 74 32 34 22 29 34 40 ..„-^ Reading 64 75 25 35 20 27 .33 42 0 ' Salisbury.* 64 741 30 34 20 25 41 46 Southampton 63 75 33 40 28 32 42 •"''' Stroud Tewkesbury 85 35 22 32 40 49 Uxbridge 70 74 28 32 17 28 40 40 Wantage—„---... 63 72 24 34 20 25 33 42 u , Warminster ...—.... 67 70 27 34 22 26 36 40 Windsor 76 21 22 35 4 6 49 Worcester—........» 65 70 32 36 30 32 . 46 CHELTENHAM MARKETS. o d d. t 9 • Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.l Per lb. Wheat barley Oats 3 3 4 3 Veal Beans Fork Fease 4 9 sti Lamh Hay 31.55. to 41 4s. 01 per ton. MA RKET.—Nov. . Wheat, Old HULL s 's• 60 s. 78 s New .. 6 .... 5Ss. 6 g'' - .....8. Foreign 03s 74s 78 . In bond... —s• ---' 0 —s.. , Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 225. Old --s. Os. oc ,` 4 , -- Small or Feed.... —v. 17s. 188 .. --s. -- ..... 4 . Foreign —s. —s. —s ~..s. ....b. ~,,,, Barley, Norf. & Suf ... 30s 325. 335. Line. & Wold . 6 .: 305• -,,.. Foreign - s.- '• '..... Beans .^ - 2 8. SM. '6s. 38s. 425. Foreign ......... 268. ' , Pease, White....... ..... 365. 38s. 40s. Grey 265. 20 3 . ' Tares ... ,-.. 34s. 365. 38s. Foreign ...4....... .......5. Rapeseed. in b0,5d......n0ne Free, per last 281. Os. 331' Scarcely twelve days have elapsed since we reCor u '; the lamentable and frighful death of a young g entian, named Field, a pupil of Dr. Lardner's, on the Great Wes t he Railroad, before we are again called upon to a nno unce " te , occurrence of another accident, which has, we regret w been attenthd with similar fatal results. It appears that l ie tween nine and ten o'clock on Monday night, as one of i c g railroad police, named Chapman, was on duty between Ellin and Hanwell stations, close to the latter village, he bear its the distance the noise of an engine approaching, and ° b ad reaching him the engineer inform4l him ho feared thel n i n . run over something a few yards in the rear. Ch :ter° . stantly hastened to the spot, when by the light of his -3 001 he was horror-stricken at discovering his own fathe r w in the agonies of death, the engine and tender having r e d to right over him. The almost frantic son instantly baste,,, wire the residence of Mr. Haffenden, surgeon, of Hanwe'L vi ss immediately returned with him, but all human ass istant ° ut y unavailing, life being quite extinct. It appears that t th his fortunate man was proceeding along the railway wloginie son's supper, not anticipating the travelling of en „bele at that late hour, and being deaf, it s a pproach wa s u viers by him. The wheels of the engine, on examination., bog found to have passed over his legs, body, and chesti eg is slanting direction, smashing his ribs, right arm, and ~1e,f t, ,,001 a most frightful manner. The basket containing be oefe supper, together with the hat of his unfoi tuate f . at ber e body found lying about thirty yards from the spot where fb was discovered. of tbe The Channel coast of France and the mouth' sw eet Seine were exp ose d on F r id ay l ast to exceedingysteros' weather. The weather at sea had been extremely bel for several days previous. At 2 o'clock a waterspout On served rising from the sea at a considerable distant ea La Heve. It was driven by the north-west wind till Ar t) j e l the Seine, and burst within a short distance of the 11° „ r dsg $1 . at Havre. At 3 the same day a similar phenomenvvioleaccee occurred under nearly the same circumstances. Ib e nr odd t o of the waves, and the immense body of water u l n broe,;, by the bursting of the two spouts, forced the emu near Harfleur, and caused great damage by the itbs tsll o' tion to which the fissures gave entrance. 14c4 : 0 03 ing the bad weather, the steam-packets Phoenix , ► '', o , don, Paris, from St. Petersburgh, and the Botterti"„osato the town after which she is named, made good their ri a ndi oe s and arrived in safety at their appointed times. ° ll on a' f r eight in the evening, after a tempestuous day, a t t , r itb 01 19 storm of thunder and lightning burst over the towel-fiats. this' ers of hailstcnes, some of which were as big as w_, B „ - n e ipg do not learn that any extraordinary damage was Lo.o.4e'lmotecb except that a waggon laden with bales of c ottofh. rtg , on the road to Granville, was struck by the Hew', r tu o e r did it some injury, but the driver and his horses 'fat ay" escaped without any other consequences than the fright go , sioned by the shock.—French Paper. t i l er tr ee t An omnibus driver, a conductor, and an° be th-'O O were yesterday committed for t r i a l from Lam ra e dg eo office, on a charge of stealing a pound and a 1 ,9 • 4 1, 0 1). 1 ' 1 ;0 e from the shop of a butcher in the Mile-end-road. rostie and licenses were ordered to be detained, and i nf.° the circumstance given to the registrar. .......•••*" Co„.,rbbe - T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c•, t he f t - 0 ;0 4 London ( Seven Doors from Graceehurch-street ), inf that he has fitted up THREE SHOW ROOMS etigi;._.ro pr ice display of a large assortment of superior t 0Oe" 'to r PLATED GOODS. He offers them at those low t o tion i c so which have been so successful in drawing public strfoll WATCH, JEWELLERY, SILVER SPOON Bnitsiol'igcoc't,' several branches of his trade. N.B. A pamphlet, , ir n ° . tc hes , ps / tailed List of the Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, " er &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in an s ' paid application. i i ll" BIRTH S. la d y of , On the 4th inst., at Woods at, Staffordshire, the I yo 6o' Beresford, instf a daughter. On the 7th ~ at Wimpole-street, the lady O f ae°rge 4 „ to ffe t ' Esq., of a son. i 0, - ~. On the 7th inst., in Belgrave-street, the Countess 0.1 , a daughter. eld git o MARRIED. On the 3d inst., at St. P ancras , Rowland Balaw.injoi E a s t ' sv 10 ,, ter son of the Rev. Timothy Ea s t, o f Birmingham, tcoiebr°° We e ' youngest daughter of the late John Body, Esq" race, Islington. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev.. qa t s f i l lt°;i tor iitill :, to O P n hi t l h li:p 6 a th Al i l n e s n t ,. , er•° 4 Sandys, Bart. t ura Ac to John Henry Frolick, E yoa s tu q n . John, eldest son of John Meyer, Esq., of Fair La:id of green, to Louisa, fourth daughter and youngest 5" s,gtoe.sftGdeauourriglgehhatnse:cgori of Sir toe _ D ye On nn thethe e sth h h itilnsstt..,,atjoThunbrDidgdleEEWThells, Sir Edward ham O - n street 4 , th ß : CAl ebri Ir Bart., , aged 77. - tertsee lington, aged 63. the the inst., James Matthewgl;folfineCu°Se,bEr7l;:llllJl' E King's Own Stafford Regiment, at his sister's ' SO' anston-sqnuarßen y, On the sth inst., at the 'residence of his aught 00 ward King, of Chancey lane, Mr. John Bough, ag ed i b cri' lle I On the 3d inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex Elizabe youngest daughter of the late Horace Hayes, ' EK' stl.t 9 u ri ee : d' On the 6th inst., at Hastings, William Agar , 10 ,10 oe Counsel, of Elm Lodge , in the county of Middlese%, square, Lincoln's-inn, aged 72. of .the RightOn tilleon6thLoirndstn,enErdywptieNtV, iklt,By.,ouzgedestisor' f r M.P,.......1••••1111=1MME.........El 0 of si r -------trOVN ' 0 0 London: Printed and Published by MURDO - A iii tketo 'V 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112 Str ati ' s ' of Middlesex. —Thursday, November 8, 111101.